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To: Praxeus
Well.. You cannot say "all" of God was in the womb of Mary. It wasn't. God is an omnipresent spirit. God incarnate was in the womb of Mary. That was a limitation self-imposed by God Himself.. that is, the incarnation.

How much of God was, then? 10 percent? 25?

Jesus existed as the omnipresent God at the same time he existed as a man.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

As I said before.. if Mary could have contained all the Spirit of God, that would have made her God.

I'm not following. There is an element of mystery involved, somethign we can nevere fully understand.

Yes, I understand that God limited Himself by becoming Incarnate. But it is simply wrong to speak of Jesus as being anythign other than fully 100 % God and fully 100 % man. That is orthodox Christianity.

If the person inside Mary was not fully God, then He was not God at all.

SD

1,063 posted on 03/22/2004 2:22:56 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
It's simple really.. The incarnate Christ was not all of God even though He was all God. But that is not a problem vis-a-vis His deity. He existed as God SIMULTANEOULY while he existed in the incarnation. He was not limited to the limitation.

He existed apart from it as the only, eternal omnipresent God. He continued in His existence as the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent God during the incarnation.

Just as the burning bush was not all there was of God, neither was the incarnation all there was of God. It was simply that part we were allowed to behold and touch.

1,077 posted on 03/22/2004 2:45:52 PM PST by Praxeus
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